Decorated Canadian wheelchair basketball player Patrick Andreson announces retirement

By Canadian Press on March 24, 2025.

One of the most decorated Canadian basketball players of all time has retired.

Patrick Anderson, who led the Canadian men’s wheelchair basketball team to three Paralympic gold medals and a silver, says last year’s Paralympic Games in Paris was his last.

The 45-year-old from Fergus, Ont., has been called the Michael Jordan of wheelchair basketball.

Anderson was one of Canada’s flag-bearers for the opening ceremonies in Paris. He scored 31 points and had 11 rebounds in the bronze-medal game that Canada lost to Germany.

He was struck by a car at age nine and his lower legs were amputated below the knee.

Anderson is now helping Canada’s next generation of basketball players as a skills coach and intends to launch a wheelchair basketball program in his hometown of Fergus.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 24, 2025.

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